Sentence examples for becomes preoccupied with the from inspiring English sources

Karpov becomes preoccupied with the mother and frustrated by his inability to reach the daughter.

He becomes preoccupied with the girl, and is beside himself when it rains for a week and he doesn't see her.

He became preoccupied with the idea of reviving the dishes known by past generations.

As a doctor in training, he became preoccupied with the empire's weakness.

When the sun comes out, we become preoccupied with the real world.

The summer I was eight, I became preoccupied with the thought that I was going to die.

Biobanking began in earnest after the Second World War, when researchers became preoccupied with the prospect of another nuclear conflict.

Mr. Bush's campaign, too, has become preoccupied with the conduct of politics -- Mr. McCain's conduct that is.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mathematicians and philosophers of mathematics became preoccupied with the idea of securing a firm foundation of mathematics.

He became preoccupied with the conflict between the religious obligations of Muslims and the American military's role in fighting in Muslim countries, but supervisors minimized the concerns.

Other Jacobean dramatic writers became preoccupied with the problem of evil: the plays of John Webster, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and George Chapman induce all the terror of tragedy but little of its pity.